CLST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Panathenaic Games, Eleusinian Mysteries, Anthesteria

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: CLST 102
• Professor: Fabio Colivicchi

Document Summary

Opinion depends on cretes; one may believe more strongly in one reason than another: activity of the gods, human activity, natural causes. On the sacred disease by hippocrates: godly intervention of the disease, physicians say that reasoning gods as everything is ignorant. Freedom for humans to establish rules; justice is human responsibility: kosmos. What do the gods want: gods want what humans want honour and respect (time) Not even the followers of the gods were safe: aktaion saw the goddess artemis bathing and consequently got killed. Those who transgressed from their obligations towards gods were punished: not respecting and honouring gods, taking advantage of vulnerable people, asebes without piety. Protected by the gods (not protected by the community in which they are located); vulnerable people are protected to increase the amount of interaction between all people mistreating lower people cuts out communication: suppliants, heralds. Diplomats who went from one place to another for diplomatic reasons: strangers.